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	ysss	2010-12-16 , 15:26
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Originally Posted by qole

I can say with complete honesty that the MeeGo announcements were disappointing but not surprising. I think most of us from the pre-N900 days were just waiting for Nokia to do it all again. Remember the almost-embarrassed announcement of the N900 at Nokia World? Ari's "It isn't for everyone, but I like it," response? And even at the height of the N900 excitement, we kept hearing, "Step 4 of 5," repeated over and over. I know I never really expected the N900 to go fully mainstream. My surprises were things like Angry Birds appearing on the N900. Now that was a nice surprise! Also, the sheer number of downloads of my scripts from Extras was a real shocker.

Are you saying you were surprised? That MeeGo hit you like a ton of bricks?

Well, I think the TMO users have given front row seats to all things maemo... so those 'step 4 out of 5' message have been drilled to us over and over again, that people here expect everyone else in the world to know about it.

I agree that there's been some nice things discovered (for n900 and maemo 5) along the way, and there's no lack of bad surprises too (no mms, ussd, landscape-only, et al).

Maybe not like a ton of bricks, but I was surprised (or rather, superbly disappointed) that Nokia did not handle this 'transition' any better, given that the n900 has actually hit mainstream (IMO; since it's widely available and often cited and compared against popular smartphones online).

EDIT: Sorry for replying to such old posts... Oh well...

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